1I BUT you must realize that in the last days the times will be full of danger.

2Men will become utterly selfcentered, greedy for money, full of big words. They will be proud and abusive, without any regard for what their parents taught them. They will be utterly lacking in gratitude, reverence

3and normal human affections. They will be remorseless, scandalmongers, uncontrolled and violent and haters of all that is good.

4They will be treacherous, reckless and arrogant, loving what gives them pleasure instead of loving God.

5They will maintain a facade of "religion" but their life denies its truth. Keep clear of people like that.

6From their number come those creatures who worm their way into people's houses, and find easy prey in silly woman with an exaggerated sense of sin and assorted desires

7who are always anxious to learn and yet never able to grasp the truth.

8These men are as much enemies to the truth as Jannes and Jambres were to Moses. Their minds are distorted, and they are traitors to the faith.

9But in the long ran they won't get very far. Their folly will become as obvious to everybody as did that of Moses' opponents.